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The collection consists of interviews pertaining to the history of coal mining on Vancouver Island.

CALL NUMBER: T4343:0012 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Attitude of mining families; George Simmonds; 1887 inquest; mother's story; ;transportation in the 1880s; widow; Fanny and William Bray; Protection mine; father injured in mine; William Griffith; contract mining; bathing; wash house; lamp house; immigration; father; Wales; tea;chers; telephones; Welsh choir; parent's marriage; David Evans. TRACK 2: Schooling; Hunt family; Sunday school; sea cadet; merchants; Fraser Street; podiatry school; pays mother's mortgage; Harvard m;edical school; hitchhiking.;

CALL NUMBER: T4343:0013 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Internship; Nanaimo doctors; Norman Bethune; Courts wife; marriage; first child; transporting Chinese across Canada; travel from Vancouver to Nanaimo; medical practice in Nanaimo; Indians bui;ld sailing canoe; Indians sell blackberries; Indian helper; Indian feast; Indian longhouse; Indian mourning; mine doctor; enlists; army doctor; builds log house; Vancouver doctor; lives in Hotel Vanco;uver; Pest House; patients pay in kind; sailor; buys Hammond Bay Road house; sells Harmac property; Nanaimo booster. [TRACK 2: blank.];

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1981-01-22 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Coal Tyee; Indians; baseball; chunker; protection; tallies; mules; scows; Yugoslavs; rats; food; children protection; safety; Granby; Hunt; motor; Chinese; night shift.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03-28 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Stores; close of mines; beer; death of a miner; gas; 1887 explosion; dentistry; Finns; three babies; mine rescue teams; black lung; W.C.B.; amputations; life span; lodges; hospital Chinese; attitude toward amputation; hatchet man; pneumonia; burn cases; maggots and leeches; recreation; soccer; lacrosse.;

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), [1979 summer] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Log house; father hurt; winter and summer employment; blacksmith; coal delivery; the Chinese; horses; beer; wages; reserve mine; listening to shots; liked mines; lights go out; mine animals; cage; union organizing; sulphur; strike; Indians; May 24.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-23 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Tent in Departure Bay; Malpass/Princess Royal; Dunsmuirs; grandmother on stagecoach; Drake Family Band; Silver Cornet Band; concerts; schools; sailing vessels; Indian reservation; Germans before World War I; red light district; brothers in WWI; Oscar; Chinatown; English immigrants.

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1979-08-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; blacklist; union; grievances; mine conditions; wages; hauling; mules; shifts; politics; Chinese; recreation; churches; soccer and baseball players; safety; beer; management; housing; ethnic; war.;

RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-03-04 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Building bees; strike; school; Finnish recreation; boarding houses; wash houses; father to Nanaimo; Extension; horse and buggy; Sam Guthrie; hoist; Finn halls; Mount Bickerton; ethnic groups; motor; Chinese; money earned; the Depression; father's accident.

RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-05-09 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Terminology; camaraderie; lamps and dress; Chinese, other races; drinking; ambitions; hours; Sam Guthrie; strike; Dunsmuir; reasons for coming; lodges; WCB.;

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1979-08-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Family arrives; dentist; mining camp; widow; wages; hospital; strike; mules; Chinese; police; train tracks; fire; boat to Nanaimo; Japanese; ethnic groups; explosion; entertainment; nurse into the mine.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], [early 1979] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Young miner in Scotland; welfare retirement; Granby; wages, hours; Sam Guthrie; smells; the Depression; Elite Hall; UMWA; Chinese in the union; Northfield; mules; strike, James Knowles; Northfield flood; Beban flood; No. 10 explosion.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-25 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Trip out; into mines; contract work; the old country; quit the mine; hunt; strike of 1948; the Depression; organising; union agreement; miners' picnics; risks; welfare; the Chinese; the Women's Auxiliary; rates; WeeToo; No. 10 explosion; mules; closing No. 1; May Day; accidents; differential.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-07-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Reasons for coming; trip; adjustments; mother; strike; home on Nicol Street; work for girls; Chinatown; helping father; red light district; dancing; strike; marriage; beer parlours; Indians; dogs.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Picking tables; slopes; Southfield flood; Granby; loading coal in harbour; rope riding; mine temperature; school; weather; drinking; Chinese; rope in mine.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-07-18 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Father worked during strike; markets; Oscar; union; prostitutes; school; shopping; Chinese; going into the mines; medical; protection cage; transportation; No. 1; entertainment; blacksmith; church; politics; hostler; hardware store; railroad.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03-26 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Picking; football; lacrosse; Jo Sutton; first day in mine; fourteen inch seam; fire boss; strike; payroll hold-up; tally union; CPR boats; shirts; the Depression; WeeToo; Spencer's store; hotels; Italians; Chinese; explosives; St. John's Ambulance; rescue; cave-ins; Nanaimo Free Press.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Lamps; sinking a shaft; scow; 5 Acres, Harewood; football, beer, mules, Chinese; Brechin mine.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-28 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Church organist; lived on Esplanade; school; harbour; Indians; No. 1: Robbins; down into the mine; explosion; mules; weather; swimming; churches; unions; Fraser Street; lunch bucket; stores; Chinese; bars; parades; curfew; sinking hole; strike; Dunsmuir.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-26 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Transportation; recruiting miners; starts in mine; picking tables; down shaft; mines; small explosions; protection; long wall; animals; class; safety; miner's ticket; contract diggers; timbers; Chinese; first aid; the Depression; eyes; company store; politics; union; soccer; lunch; sanitary facilities; fun; stores; wash houses; picnic.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-11 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; No. 1 tipple; kids and lunch buckets; no women; Chinese; miners as people; management; x-ray machine football; beer; stable boss.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-14 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. The Depression; Chinese population; Saturday night; food stuffs; distributing pay; jars; New Year; helping each other; graveyard traditions; single file; education; father's business; father's origins; Chinatown; head tax; factions; Chinese miners; Wells; organizing; living conditions; fire; philosophy.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-08-03 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; funds; housing; young man into mines; No. 10; Richardson mine; WWII; Northfield; recreation; tickets; transportation; wages; politics; union; the Chinese; safety; the Japanese; hospital; No. 10 explosion.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; white powder; Bigg's mine; strike; Dunsmuir's boat; Brechin; leaving school; fatality; powder works explosion; powder works; Chinese at powder plant; dynamite; Oscar; nailing contest; whistles; shoes and overalls; sulphur house fire; damp; sulphur in eyes; Sloane family; Alvo von Alvensleben; Indian stories; Dunsmuir versus Robbins; chain gang; mine surveyors; Jingle Pot mines; Harewood mine; stories of new prospecting.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-06 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; choirs; Robbins; company farm; Oscar; Reserve; fire at Northfield; rescue teams; husband; Chinese; mules; picnic.